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SHADOWS OF DU BOIS

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  24 October 2011

Jack Turner
Jack Turner*
Affiliation:
Department of Political Science, University of Washington
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Jack Turner, Department of Political Science, Box 353530, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, 98195-3530. Email: jturner3@uw.edu
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Political theory is catching up to Du Bois. More than a century after the publication of The Souls of Black Folk ([1903] 1997), political theorists have begun to realize that “the problem of the color-line” (pp. 45, 61) is constitutive of modernity. That it has taken this long for political theorists to recognize what Du Bois saw so clearly more than a century ago reflects the field's all-too-frequent parochialism. At the same time, the field is home to dissenting voices which insist that we cannot understand modern politics without confronting the White supremacist character of the modern West.

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Du Bois Review: Social Science Research on Race , Volume 8 , Issue 2 , Fall 2011 , pp. 379 - 382
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Copyright © W.E.B. Du Bois Institute for African and African American Research 2011

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